Job switching in ants: Role of a kinase

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-52

  Lucas, Christophe ^a   Hughson, Bryon N ^b   Sokolowski, Marla B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ants; Defence; Foraging; Kinase; Pheidole pallidula

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; PHEIDOLE PALLIDULA;

EID: 77952832058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.3.1.9655     Document Type: Short Survey

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